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A couple of years ago, I had, with the Samsung Galaxy Book2, my first experience with Windows 10 on an ARM CPU. Suddenly, 15 hours of battery life on an ultra-portable was a thing. I never imagined I’d see something similar on a Mac.

There are many reasons Apple decided to build its own silicon. Among them is the experience it had guiding silicon partners on the development of bespoke processors, of gaining more performance than virtually all other ARM players, and what it would mean to own the whole stack to drive not only major performance gains, but possibly achieve even greater system efficiency wins. That last part could translate into almost unheard-of battery performance for a laptop. Apple is, though, not the first to marry mobile silicon and desktop operating systems.

While the M1 silicon is the star of the show here, it would be impossible for it to get its work done without macOS Big Sur, a desktop OS update that not only makes noticeable design and interface changes but is engineered to connect ready apps with the best the M1 has to offer. I think this is one of the primary reasons the MacBook Air with Apple M1 experience is so smooth.

Now, however, I was seeing desktop-class (really better than desktop class) numbers from an ARM CPU. From that point forward, my expectations for what this MacBook Air could handle recalibrated, anticipating that this system could handle whatever I threw at it.

Apple Final Cut Pro running on the M1 impressively manages multiple 4K video streams, complex overlays, and cross cuts. The M1 rendered a 20 minutes 4K video in approximately 10 minutes. Normally such an operation would be accompanied by distracting system fan sounds but the MacBook Air M1 is silent. There is no fan, just an efficient cooling system.

I do have some questions. The new MacBook Air with Apple M1 is a clear mobile work champ and yet there’s no LTE option. Apple is clearly nudging mobile and desktop systems together, why shouldn’t they share this ubiquitous connectivity option? Is Apple waiting to introduce an M1-based 5G MacBook Air next year (how cool would that be)?

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Apple claims the MacBook Air with M1 can get 15 hours of battery life with wireless browsing and 20 hours of wireless video playback. I set up Netflix to play through all of Better Call Saul (or as much of it as I could get through). I started the rundown at 2PM and finished it the next day at 1:45. There were a few times where Netflix paused the playback on its own and one stretch where the system slept for 3 hours. Overall, I’d say I achieved the 20 hours of video playback. And when I started working off battery life, opening Safari browser windows, launching Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, and playing Arcade and AppStore games, I got roughly 15 hours.

Aside from fantastic battery life and excellent performance, the other big benefit of an ARM CPU on the Mac is that the laptop can now run iOS and iPadOS apps. This, however, is not as exciting a development as you might expect. The list of useful, available iOS apps is relatively small. I could not, for instance, find Instagram or LinkedIn or games like PUBG and Headsup.

Apple’s M1 chip handles both the mundane and the entertaining with equal aplomb. I played Apple’s Arcade’s beautiful and haunting Little Orpheus, losing myself so completely in the game that 15 minutes had passed before I moved my hands off the keyboard. I also downloaded Asphalt Legends from the mac App Store and had a really good time racing cars on the excellent, colorful Retina display.

We’d all disliked the previous style of academic and blog post-driven perfectionism. Why was I continuing to worry about if our code matched how someone outside of our team said things should be done.

iOS apps that are ready for M1 operation, like Kitchen Stories and the popular game Among Us run in small windows that I could not maximize to the full Retina display size.

I wish Apple has sent me the baseline, $999 MacBook Air with its 7-Core CPU. I don’t imagine the benchmarks would be wildly different, but that OpenCL number would surely be lower, by how much I do not know. In any case, keep in mind that I tested the $1,249, 8-core, 512 GB model (all systems come with at least 8 GB of RAM, which mine had).

As I noted earlier, I downloaded and installed a variety of apps without thinking very much about whether or not they would run. Native Apple Apps like Mail, Safari, and Maps work as if nothing’s changed. There are Big Sur updates like the new Control Center, Notifications update, a redesigned App Launcher, Cycling routes in Maps ,and in Safari Instant privacy reports under the shield icon and a new Start Page. However, Apple’s native apps also give you a glimpse of what’s possible when apps are written to tap directly into the M1’s native power, especially since most Universal apps won’t arrive until later this year or early next.

Thanks to Rosetta 2, some full-scale apps like Cisco Webex, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop worked surprisingly well on the new platform. It does give you a moment’s pause when you see the message that the app you’re about to download and install was built for Intel CPUs, but the combination of Apple’s M1, macOS Big Sur and Rosetta 2 provide a stable and, during my tests, at least, crash-free experience.